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The city gate.
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The city gate.
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MARIANA veiled, ISABELLA, and FRIAR
PETER, at their stand. Enter DUKE
VINCENTIO, VARRIUS, Lords, ANGELO, ESCALUS, LUCIO, Provost, Officers, and Citizens, at several doors
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MARIANA wearing a veil, ISABELLA, and FRIAR
PETER are at their stand. DUKE
VINCENTIO, VARRIUS, lords, ANGELO, ESCALUS, LUCIO, the Provost, officers, and citizens enter from several directions.
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DUKE VINCENTIO My very worthy cousin, fairly met!
Our old and faithful friend, we are glad to see you.
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DUKE VINCENTIO (to Angelo) My fellow nobleman, welcome!
(to Escalus) My faithful old friend, I’m glad to see you.
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ANGELO, ESCALUS Happy return be to your royal grace!
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ANGELO, ESCALUS Welcome home, your royal grace!
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DUKE VINCENTIO Many and hearty thankings to you both.
5We have made inquiry of you; and we hear
Such goodness of your justice, that our soul
Cannot but yield you forth to public thanks,
Forerunning more requital.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Many hearty thanks to you both. I’ve been asking about you, and I’ve heard such good things about your rule that I just had to thank you publicly, as a preview of more rewards to come.
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ANGELO You make my bonds still greater.
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ANGELO You make my debt to you even greater.
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DUKE VINCENTIO
10O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it,
To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
When it deserves, with characters of brass,
A forted residence ’gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion. Give me your hand,
15And let the subject see, to make them know
That outward courtesies would fain proclaim
Favours that keep within. Come, Escalus,
You must walk by us on our other hand;
And good supporters are you.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Oh, you’re extremely worthy, and it’d be wrong of me to hide it in my heart, when it deserves to be written in brass letters, as on a monument, where time can’t erase it. Give me your hand, and let the people see, so they’ll know how proud I am to display my high regard for you. Come, Escalus, you must walk with me on my other side. You make a fine
supporterin heraldry, one of the figures that holds up a shield (as in a coat of arms, for instance) supporter . |
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FRIAR
PETER and ISABELLA come forward
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FRIAR
PETER and ISABELLA come forward.
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FRIAR PETER
20Now is your time: speak loud and kneel before him.
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FRIAR PETER Now’s the time: speak up and kneel before him.
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